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16 years ago

alt_timestamp() question

Hi! I am just wondering if my understanding of the alt_timestamp is totally wrong... My oszillator clock is 50MHz which i can see in the sopc builder and which has never changed. I configured ...
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16 years ago

@dsl:

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It is rather surprising that none of the Altera timer blocks contain a scaled 32bit up-counter.

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Yes, a scaled 32bit up-counter is exactly what i am missing in the sopc builder (is there some Altera wishlist?).

Right now i am trying to abuse a performance counter for my GetMillisecClock() purpose. Hope this will work...

Best regards

FredFlintstone